Innovation Works Inc
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 25-1588611. Reported 33 grants totalling $1,069,563 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $18,967. Half of what it reported fell between $11,000 and $27,420; the smallest was $5,728 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm to Flame Energy Inc | Duquesne, PA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Precision Neuroscopics | Pittsburgh, PA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meerkat Village LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korion Health Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $90,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sustainible LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make It Home Safe LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Testa Seat Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Veloai Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pathway Accessibility Solutions Inc Dba Pathvu | Pittsburgh, PA | $27,420 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Admirra Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Expressive Painimation Co | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glassautomatic Inc Dba Rolf Glass | Mt Pleasant, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leaficient Inc | Evans City, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thiopoly LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kenson Plastics Inc | Beaver Falls, PA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shelfmark Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $18,967 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pimios LLC | New Brighton, PA | $17,125 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| D Squared Plant Traps LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Raven Industries Inc | Latrobe, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sterile Vision Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Encotech Inc | Eighty Four, PA | $14,941 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bansen Labs LLC | Coraopolis, PA | $13,092 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Leading Technologies Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $12,122 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leaders of Change LLC | Pittsburgh, PA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Optimus Technologies Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $9,925 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Forsight Assistive Devices LLC | North Huntingdon, PA | $9,150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luminaerospace LLC | N Huntingdon, PA | $7,178 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Estat Actuation Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,393 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Realbotics Inc | Bethel Park, PA | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Je Weinel Dba Rock-N-Rescue | Butler, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
1 of 31 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Precision Neuroscopics
AWARD, UPPRIZE ($150,000) - Meerkat Village LLC
AWARD, UPPRIZE ($100,000) - Veloai Inc
SCALEABLE MANUFACTURING GRANTS ($25,000) INTERN PROGRAM GRANT ($2,500) - Pathway Accessibility Solutions Inc Dba Pathvu
SCALEABLE MANUFACTURING GRANT ($25,000), INTERN PROGRAM ($2,420) - Expressive Painimation Co
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ($25,000) - Leaficient Inc
SCALEABLE MANUFACTURING GRANTS ($25,000)
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | $121,278 | $13,092 |
| 2021 | 3 | $46,393 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 8 | $384,228 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $517,664 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,967 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Innovation Works Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 13 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Two Allegheny Center 100, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212.
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